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Stephanie LeMenager started the topic Ecomedia Roundtable for 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Forum Members,
Please check out our CFP for the sponsored Forum for 2017!!! The topic, “Ecomedia,” reflects your requests from last year.
Looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
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Allison Carruth started the topic Future of Food Studies conference at Princeton in April in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoCritical Consumption: The Future of Food Studies
Princeton University American Studies Program
April 1-2, 2016For those interested in food studies and its intersections with the environmental humanities, American Studies, ethnic studies and/or media studies, this promises to be an exciting two-day invitational conference open to the public to…[Read more]
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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]
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Dana Luciano started the topic Invitation and Panel Info: Afterlives of 19c American Racism, 8:30 am 1/9/16 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago82. Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century American Racism
Saturday, 9 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 14, ACCProgram arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century American
Presiding: Dana Luciano, Georgetown Univ.
Speakers: Marlene Daut, Claremont Graduate Univ.; Gordon Fraser, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; <…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Lazo started the topic Invitation – Canon and Archives Panel MLA in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago19. From Canon to Archival Encounters
<div id=”conv_program_details”>Thursday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 8C, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century American
Presiding: Rodrigo Lazo, Univ. of California, Irvine
1. “Slavery and the Archival Uncanny,” Jennifer C. James, George Washington Univ.
2. “Tales of Archival E…[Read more]
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Heidi Tiedemann Darroch started the topic Invitation to coffee and chat at MLA 2016 in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession will be hosting a coffee hour on Saturday, January 9 between our two panel sessions. We invite you to join us from 11:30-1:30 in 502-503 of the JW Marriott to share ideas and initiatives. Additional information is available here: https://contingent.mla.hcommons-staging.org/.
Many thanks to all…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic An invitation to a literary trivia quiz in Austin in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this forum attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It’s free, promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but should be fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve y…[Read more]
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Stacy Alaimo started the topic "Energy, Matter, Force" roundtable. Friday 8 Jan. 5:15, 6A ACC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHope to see people at the “Energy, Matter, Force,” roundtable; the inaugural session of the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, at MLA:
Friday 8 Jan. 5:15, 6A ACC
Ken Hiltner, “Coal”
Catriona Sandilands, “Combustion”
Steve Mentz: “Error”
Serpil Opperman, “Storied Matter”
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson,”Solastalgia”
Ursula K. Heise, “Terra…[Read more] -
Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Offer input on JSTOR Literature development at MLA Convention in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAnne Ray, Senior Licensing Editor at JSTOR, invites librarians participating in any aspect of language or literature collection development to an informal, open discussion of JSTOR’s expansion. Refreshments will be served!
Where : Conference Hotel, TBA
When : Friday, 8 January, 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Why?
JSTOR is i…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
– Nicky Agate (Manag…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns deposited The Horizon’s Hoop: Emerson’s “Monadnoc” in Contingency and History in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoWhen it is spoken of at all, Emerson’s “Monadnoc” is described as a solicitation of natural sublimity. But a close rhetorical analysis of the poem reveals greater ambivalence about this sublimity than is apparent—linking it to later American philosophic poems by Frost, Stevens, Ammons, and Kinnell that at once solicit and question natural plenitu…[Read more]
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Megan Massino started the topic Invitation: Open Meeting on Postdocs and the Profession in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoAt MLA2016:
Join for coffee and a discussion of postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, both best practices for positions and programs and pressing questions about the role of the postdoc position in humanities research initiatives, the casualization of the academic workforce, and the larger profession.
Members of this group may be inter…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited MLA 2016: The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” is an MLA 2016 special session in which panelists consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students and contingent and full-time faculty members into an already overcrowded job market. Instead of providing advice about getting a job, participants evaluate that advice and gen…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Awards Announcement — Ralph Waldo Emerson Society in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2016
<div class=”column”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2016) or the…[Read more] -
Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoPart-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.
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